ADRIEN BRODY - Actor

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James Ellis Deakins

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4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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SEASON 2 - EPISODE 127 - Adrien Brody - Actor

Actor Adrien Brody (THE BRUTALIST, SUMMER OF SAM, THE PIANIST) joins us in this episode of the Team Deakins Podcast. We worked with Adrien on THE VILLAGE, and it was great catching up with him. Early in our sprawling conversation about his career and his craft, we discuss what he learned as a young actor working with directors of great caliber—from Juan José Campanella (Season 2, Episode 80) to Spike Lee and Ken Loach—that led to his lauded performance in THE PIANIST. Later in our discussion of THE BRUTALIST, Adrien reflects on his collaboration with director Brady Corbet and shares what his first concern as a performer was when told the film would be shot on loud VistaVision cameras, and Adrien reveals the personal family history that informed his moving performance and shares how he and his fellow filmmakers pulled the film off with relatively limited resources. Towards the end our conversation, we also consider actors’ and cinematographers’ reliance on others to reach creative fulfillment, and we ask Adrien if he thinks it’s possible to learn how to act. Plus, Adrien explains how to jury-rig a polaroid camera battery into a makeshift hand warmer.

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to Season 2 of the Team Deacons podcast, a collection of informal conversations
0:10.1	between Roger and James Deacons and a guest.
0:14.0	We never know where the conversation will take us, so listen in and see where it goes.
0:28.7	This episode is sponsored by Aperture, a premier manufacturer of LED lighting with the industry's greatest variety of fixtures for your complete lighting needs.
0:33.8	Aperture recently announced the new storm family of lights.
0:43.4	With LED white light quality that matches natural daylight and classic tungsten bulbs,
0:47.3	plus extreme low-end dimming while maintaining color quality.
0:55.6	Discover more about the new storm lights and the complete Aperture lighting ecosystem at Aperture.com.
1:04.2	Today we're speaking with an actor. His credits are many and include the village, the Grand Budapest Hotel, and this year's The Brutelist. We're pleased to welcome Adrian Brody. Adrian,
1:10.7	thank you for doing this.
1:11.5	Oh, thank you very much.
1:12.9	Thank you. My pleasure.
1:14.4	We'd love to start with our normal first question, which is, how did you get to where you are today?
1:19.5	Is this something you always knew you wanted to do? Did you go down another path?
1:23.5	What's your story?
1:25.1	Well, it's been a long road.
1:32.6	I began acting at a very young age, about the age of 12 professionally.
1:38.9	And it was a relatively fortuitous and random encounter.
1:40.4	My mother had an assignment.
1:41.6	She's a photographer.
1:42.9	Her name is Sylvia Plahy.
2:02.9	And she had an assignment to photograph the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City. And they had a program for young people. And she had the intuition and insight to know that I was always an actor and I was always
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